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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Randy describe being hip?

2. What did Randy's doctor tell him to do when he got the cancer diagnosis?

3. What did Randy's girlfriend do to relieve stress?

4. How many sections were in this book?

5. Why did Randy return some letters when he was in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Randy say he felt about his cancer diagnosis at the end of the lecture?

2. Why did Randy not worry to much about Jai after his death?

3. What communication problems did some of Randy's students have?

4. Why did Randy feel the way he did about his cancer diagnosis?

5. How did Randy motivate his computer science class in 1997?

6. What was unique about Randy's computer science class in 1997?

7. Why did Randy send thin mints to colleagues?

8. What was Tommy's goal in life?

9. Why couldn't Randy give his message to his kids personally?

10. How did Randy say time should be managed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were Randy's reasons for giving this lecture?

Essay Topic 2

What did Randy learn from his time on a sports team, and how was his life changed by those lessons?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the people touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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